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...following: " 'We believe that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current is so strong that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this revolution. " 'We are on the inside. We can control the avenues of influence. We can make the President believe that he is making decisions for himself.' "They said, 'A leader must appear...
...colleges feed the government with a steady stream of young talent which is absorbed through the lower appointive positions. In America no such entrance to politics is at present available and can be supplied only by a group of Public Service Colleges in the larger universities, colleges which would supplant the local party club as the origin of American statesmen...
...what they will, Princeton can never supplant Harvard in the affections of old Eli. Occupying as we do a sort of midway station between the two, our inclinations are not equally divided between the Tiger and the Crimson as would seem natural, but bear a slight twinge to the northward. Whether or not he will admit it, the average Yale undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference...
...Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe's novels so popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew to marry the boss' daughter, and, incidentally, to break the boss and supplant him in the business. Unfortunately, this bold adventurer becomes overconfident, and in the end the stock market crash gets him. His wife, played by Fay Wray, sticks by him, and the piece has a happy ending...
...waitresses, because of the conflicting engagements which some of the waiters would find unavoidable. The cost for such a program is admittedly more than the present. Whereas the total cost per week for one waitress is now $20.50, the cost of feeding the number of students necessary to supplant one waitress would be $21.25, that is, if the needed allotment of five student waiters to replace two of the present waitresses is made. The additional expense thus involved would bring the total cost for the year to a sum $2000 greater than the ordinary. This increase, nevertheless...